hangover italians are facing political deadlock with no clear winner in parliamentary elections meanwhile a protest party led by a former comedian makes a stunning debut. poles apart russia and the u.s. secret remains on how to end the bloody syrian crisis amid deep divisions between the key mediators. plus world powers look to change iran's nuclear course major talks with the easing of sanctions offered in exchange for the suspension of uranium enrichment apparently the main deal on the table. so good to have you with us this evening i'm lucy confident of and you're watching our t.v.

the election that was meant to dig the debt ridden out of the crisis is now adding political deadlock to economic issues distrust no party or coalition has managed to secure a clear majority in either house of parliament with the country now stuck in between options on the left and the right there's also a major new force emerging with a party led by a former comedian winning a quarter of all votes or. has more. back with a vengeance. a man of political experts have a political corpse just a couple of months ago. actually seems to be holding a really good cheer. in the senate but again he is tied with. number one position in the senate now if we look at the lower house however parliament does seem like the majority of the. victory there but you have to understand that this is not because so many people have voted for him but it is because. of

a lot of. the party. even by the tiniest margin and that is exactly the situation in this case. as well as a new low are all essentially tied in the parliament as well so what we have with this is a total deadlock we have ended up with. that's what some of the newspaper headlines . this morning is that the country is governor. and there does seem like three lections are at a very very high possibility for. the third biggest economy in the eurozone what happens here is vital for the economy off the. bankers and politicians over in europe. because. total. total disparity in the population is lost the one thing that they have made clear is that they have had enough of. the technocrats from brussels it seems like. not really

saying yes to any one single party. that has been implemented and so we are doing everything. they have not. just willing to do any. thing even voting for him or for a man like that but the lord who is totally inexperienced and is not really a politician basically voting for anybody but monkey and this is this is what's happening in italy right now. parties are reporting their well professor of economics a lot of the culprits says that neither of the forces likely to play a major part in italy's decision making have a viable plan on how to turn the country around italy is in the critical need of have been reformed to reassure the markets and i don't see it in the room that the center left gave or the degree to address so the problem is that they're addressing

some parts corruptions and honesty but they're not to address the konami key issues that we should be there's going to be clear. over default to a partial default and that's why it's something the might the scare the markets because italy has two thousand billion euros. and it's six times bigger than what greece has and the international economy doesn't have the salvage from to take care of a problem of this magnitude. well as the markets losing ground sharply at the prospect of a hung parliament in italy and the kaiser report is turning its attention to the fixing of interest rates are going to have the full episode for you later today but take a look at what we have so far. in this case there were thousands of e-mails between

thousands of traders or actually a few dozen traders saying set the libel rate at a rate that is not true rig it for me and they're saying about this is somehow complicated that we can't do anything about it because there are signs of innocence outside this circle of the actual writers of andersen act being committed somewhere in the universe should we apply a stand of guilt to this admission. guilt by it just b.c. yes i just recently admitted that there are a lot of money and financing terrorism but somebody somewhere very innocent acts something in a parallel universe perhaps so can we call it just b.c. kilty can we give you say oh oh oh wow there's three thousand mexicans headless because you got to go very good i just created it is terrorist but should we care because after all somebody committed it is a back somewhere so they're not guilty. well how to end the bloody conflict in syria that has claimed at least seventy thousand lives in the past two years that is of course what russia and america's top

diplomats are going to be discussing in berlin the. archies own peter all over is in the german capital he's been following the meeting thank you for joining us there peter tell us just how crucial it are these talks between sergey lavrov and john kerry and perhaps bringing some hope to an end to this crisis if any. well with regard to syria it's incredibly important that these two speak there is a rift between moscow and washington over the best way in order to bring an end to this crisis that's gone on for two years and killed an estimated seventy thousand people on the run sites the united states and and other western countries are backing the syrian rebels the syrian opposition and they are backing that opposition demand that assad must step down as the leader of syria before they will in turn put their guns down and come to the table to took the russian side on this

is that they must be peace through negotiation they want both sides to put down their weapons without any. prearranged deals in place with regard to people stepping down like assad they just want people to put the guns down and come to the table to to look down it's expected is over the next few days that the syrian opposition will be receiving extra aid from their western allies there's a meeting taking place in rome where john kerry will be heading. in his role as secretary of state now he said that addressing those rebels that to have said voice their opinion that they're not particularly happy with what they see as a lack of military aid from their western allies they want to see move military aid john kerry heading there saying that he's not just going there to talk to rome he's not just going to rome to turk that he's going to discuss perhaps other options that could be available now what those options are we simply don't know right now

we won't know until that meeting takes place and we can pick through the bones of what is said but what is clear is that there is still a long way to go between washington and moscow agreeing on the best way in order to to deal with the syrian crisis but the syrian crisis is not the only. i'm the it's the two hundred there are many other birding issues regarding russian and u.s. relations with my colleague and lisa no really highlights the. the nuclear ambitions of iran and north korea remain high on the agenda especially with north korea's recent underground test but again while both russia and the u.s. condemn any unregulated nuclear steps or weaponization the two differ greatly on how to deal with them russia's against threats of more sanctions or further isolation while the u.s. has gone as far as saying military intervention it's not off the table especially in the case of iran in europe and u.s.

plans to expand on missile defense systems and russia's concerns over its national security are considered the number one issue to have sidetracked a so-called reset but a shadow over bilateral relations is now russian children adopted by american parents the latest russian child to die might seem mean three years old only moscow was informed of the tragedy a month after mark seems death his legs had an internal organs allegedly severely bruised maxime was adopted by a u.s. family from the same orphanage as dimitri yakovlev died of heat stroke in two thousand and eight after being left inside an overheated car yacob lives name is now the title of a rush limbaugh that prohibits the adoption of russian children by u.s. citizens but critics say the law it's too harsh while supporters claim it's the only thing to be done until the u.s. can assure the safety of russian adoptees and adequate justice for violent crimes

against children. well another one of obama's recent nominations this time the new military chief is about to face his latest coming up we report on where chuck hagel stands after being all but hung out to dry in a bitter partisan standoff. oh well germany is a posting its arms sales to gulf monarchies despite the grim human rights record of some of those countries including saudi arabia off grain and qatar and now activists are sounding the alarm over the trend accusing berlin of moral bankruptcy let's take a detailed look now at how this has broken out if we can pull up the graphics and we will in a moment now last year the total value of germany's approved arms exports to gulf states stood at almost one and a half billion euros you can see that right there they soared from two thousand and eleven as you can see right there when exports stood at

a little more than five hundred million euros saudi arabia was the main recipient of the weapons with its share in two thousand and twelve being nine times bigger than the year before that will be in the slide there it is nine times over there and how we also spoke to some analyst rainer braun from germany's peace movement and he says it's not only a moral but a legal take a look. this is huge. politics and it is also gave german law because german law said there is not a. part of that even in conflict with. the region is a zone full of conflicts not only between you and the naval country also there are a lot of internal conflicts and you know it is going to have some structure to the most brutal. it is totally unacceptable for us they believe that the part of you through june will have to secure german the resources we need from these region so

it is only a profit business and it's a profit business on the back row you will ride and the people that are suffering because there are under pressure and because of this is frightened by the fact. that after a break stay with us. i would like. to know the silence. invisible. every day is a struggle. for our children sleep soundly at night. we are palestinian women in israel. we've done more for our kids

than our husbands. know we are ten times in this life. download you. so choose your life stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television or it just doesn't matter how would your mobile device you can watch your t.v. anytime anywhere. welcome back you're watching r t will a possible easing of sanctions is the main bargaining chip for six or world powers at talks with iran over its nuclear activities the high level negotiations underway in kazakhstan are the first since june but hopes of

a breakthrough are unfortunately low the u.s. has signaled that it could relax some penalties if tehran holds twenty percent uranium enrichment that's a level that could ultimately lead to the production of a nuclear bomb but the e.u. is reportedly unwilling to make a similar move tehran has recently upgraded its enrichment capability is maintaining its aims are purely peaceful and allowed within international law will former washington advisor gwenyth top says western fears of a nuclear tehran are not really what's behind the crippling sanctions. the iranian civilization has been around for five thousand years certainly longer than most western civilizations or any western civilizations and they're not suicidal. they know that were they to nuclear weapons they would be obliterated washington has being pushed then being pushed by israel for a long time to effect regime change in iran. and the nuclear program as an excuse to put pressure on iran to try to cause regime change but i'm not saying

that a nuclear armed iran would be a good thing. but a nuclear armed any country is not a good thing but the trash now behind pressure on iran in my opinion comes directly from israeli desire for regime change in iran and want the united states government to make that happen. well of all the economic penalties imposed on iran over its nuclear energy program the oil export ban has hit the country hardest despite the fact that it has undoubtedly damaged the economy overall it has also helped to strengthen other industries in the country as artie's moreno floria often ocean reports. the international ban on iranian oil cost the country around forty billion dollars in two thousand and twelve according to the u. but despite this huge gap in iran's income officials have some good news indeed harsh sanctions normal experts have increased by at least thirty percent from ego.

so what may look like a bad thing may actually play a positive role we've been asking our government for many years to decrease dependence on oil to at least fifty percent was too high up around eighty percent making our economy too vulnerable that some say today is a historic opportunity to finally get rid of this dangerous oil dependence and iran actually has a lot of alternative resources to feed from from well known copperheads to dates via minerals and stones between wanting destry in particular appears to be thriving these days iran's famous discussions have been going through tough times in the last couple of years heavy frosts and terrible droughts have been damaging. but this year with the country under tough economic sanctions the specials are doing better than ever on our currency rio fell by almost forty percent in october but i sell be statues both at home and abroad and i benefited from price rise was not as

you read in the stashes of explosives to more than one hundred countries worldwide but even if farmers cannot send in the broad confident business who remain great. thousands of industry workers also benefit which has them overcome the country's highest ever inflation the amount of production and price of affect our salaries every year the adds ten to twenty percent of my salary these even i have some bonus to my daily payments but producers seem to be more protected than exporters while international sanctions don't directly targeted food industry current measures affect the banking system making financial transactions a hard nut to crack the also penalize the banks that. are not in u.s. and europe they may be in china or south america they penalize them for dealing with iraq that that's the main that's the main problem which is actually

a good internationally if oil is a black gold the neveh stuff shows must be a green one at least for iran locals say these small knots have great health benefits especially for the men well to the country it also gives strength iran's biggest mall expert has always been a significant source of revenue and as the latest round of sanctions cautious ever bites it's also something iran may have to rely on even more than before or even ocean r.t. from iran. until someone other international news now. colombian coffee growers of clash with police during a rally to demand more government support for the industry is struggling due to a drop at international prices and the workers want the state to help by increasing subsidies demonstrators blocked roads in a number of towns but security forces said such tactics wouldn't be tolerated. nineteen people have died in egypt after a hot air balloon packed with tourists exploded in mid-air before falling three

hundred meters a hole to gas cylinder was apparently to blame for the blast tourism officials say people from japan france and britain were among the dead the pilot survived but is said to be in critical conditions. the rocket has been fired from gaza into israel causing some damage but no injuries it's the first attack since november ceasefire and it's seen as retaliation after a palestinian man died in israeli custody under disputed circumstances last year saw a major conflict between the two rivals with a death toll of more than one hundred fifty palestinians on one side five israelis on the other. letter along partisan field stand off were obama's pick for secretary of defense is to be voted on later today on tuesday chuck hagel drew the ire of republicans from the outset some of his views put him at odds with his own party and a lackluster performance at his initial confirmation hearing didn't really help our team is going to you can has more. a number of republican senators including john mccain say chuck hagel is not qualified for the job but they indicate that they're

going to allow the full senate to vote because what happened ten days ago was that the senators voted to postpone the vote and to continue the debate so it's all likely that they're going to keep stalling the vote over confirmation and he will be confirmed there's no doubt about that the votes are there but the humiliation that he had to grow through during these last few months sent a message all by itself right now chuck hagel is this repenting figure who keeps apologizing for the positions he had taken before for the statements he had made before including that war with iran should not be an option including his criticism of israel's actions and other foreign policy views that he had expressed as a senator the congress effectively showed their readiness to destroy anyone who would allow themselves to descend from washington's core foreign policy belief so despite all the apologizing that mr hague old has done one senator said that you know he almost had tears in his eyes as he apologized for his earlier statement about the israeli about the influence of these really

a lobby so despite all the repentance chuck hagel has still been under attack of some point the conservative media got so carried away that they misinterpreted someone's joke about chuck hagel as association with a group of friends of hamas and they were in such a rush to break the story that they failed to check whether the group even exists and it doesn't so chuck hagel has been under attack not just for his previous statements but also for what he had never said and done. if confirmed as the next u.s. secretary of defense hagel will have to cope with a company long accused of using his cozy government ties to dodge the hands of justice last week the part private contractor firm academy formerly known infamously so as blackwater escaped with little more than a slap on the wrist over a new arms smuggling scandal michael o'brien is the author of a book called america's failure in iraq and he thinks it's essentially immune from prosecution. they're just follow on charges after the the debacle at mr

square in the big beard september of two thousand and seven. course that was where the seventeen iraqis were were killed these are follow on charges that were. pushed against blackwater course that that's the old name the company technically doesn't exist that way they can you know technically legally sever the relationship the trop the charges three people were just look to walk to the charges were reduced to five thousand dollar fine slap on the wrist i think it also there's house arrest for four months or so. and the other thing too is they they claim that they were buying these weapons for the cia and the cia said we don't know what they're talking about and the thing about it is who knows maybe they were but it seems to me that the cia has ways of getting to weapons well there are. revealing the face of the dissent in bahrain that the government has banned the

import and wearing of what's seen as a worldwide symbol of protest a guy fawkes mask i doubt the reaction of opposition activists online also there for you a standoff on the high seas environmental activists clash with two japanese whalers ships more dramatic footage on our web site. britain's unemployment benefits aim to provide a safety net for anyone between jobs looking for their next career opportunity only for some of the payouts are so attractive that getting out of bed to go to work doesn't really seem worth it i know i feel that way. explains i couldn't really believe my luck to be on a story where it was just a dream i thought this was amusing you know british government is helping me out so you know i needed somewhere to live and i don't have

a job not the words you expect to hear from someone who's fallen on hard times housing benefits allowed stephanie to rent a flat in this sport a block in london's glitzy mayfair and by myself i could always barely afford a studio in central london when i was working and. looking for a job and so intro it's a sprawling and complicated system but one that allows a family of four to claim up to thirty five thousand pounds a year from housing to child care and unemployment benefits i've known people on benefits and they've been able to afford new cars to be able to afford to go abroad on holiday i've never actually been abroad one hundred people for in my life so how can they afford a good holiday when they're on benefits. and i can't afford to do that the welfare state was all the idea of a man who might well be turning in his grave william beverages an idea of the five

giant evils of society squalor ignorance won't miss disease some of the very qualities that critics say the system encourages beverage was chartered welfare should only provide you with. subsistence levels of support and it should only do so for a short period of top seventy years down the line and welfare spending is the biggest item of government expenditure milking it is so widespread it's become a source of satire you know people with total. disability allowance i told you were at docklands go. if you think you can get me on is just ability allowance he's got a bone to see which call. westminster now wants to make it clear that benefit on to a career path and coming through the doors of your local job sense a year in and year out filling in

a few forms and claiming your money is no longer an option but for people that have been through the experience of claiming unemployment benefit they say it's all too easy to get money no one's really checking whether or not you're genuinely looking for what. artsy. after a short break or report on palestinian moms who risk everything to help their kids stay with us. world. science technology innovation believes developments from around russia we've got the future covered. there's an old urban legend that says that the u.s.

army stopped using circular targets for rifle practice because the soldiers would be hesitant to shoot people on the battlefield the logic is that if you practice shooting something that looks like an enemy soldier you'll be desensitized about killing real enemy soldiers so again the logic is to practice shooting at what you want to kill so you won't hesitate and speaking of not hesitating the law enforcement targets incorporated has created a special line of paper targets for police called new more hesitation so it's on these targets well maybe mexican drug cartel members or l.a. street gangs nope children and pregnant women yeah law enforcement targets in coffers a product to desensitize police from hesitating to blow away women carrying the unborn and innocent children and it's even sicker than that i bet law enforcement agencies are probably buying these things up by the thousands but that's just my opinion.